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Myanmar state broadcaster MRTV reported Wednesday that 7,012 prisoners, including political detainees, will be released by the military-controlled government of Myanmar in commemoration of the nation’s independence day. But a JURIST correspondent in Myanmar doubts that the announcement signals a positive trend for the junta. “We can’t expect much improvement because they do that for [...]

Iranian authorities violated international human rights law with excessive and lethal force against protestors in Kurdistan throughout September, October and November, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. HRW asserts that Iranian security forces continue to commit human rights violations with their inhumane treatment of detainees and executions. HRW calls on the UN to investigate these [...]

Following months of protests over rapidly rising inflation rates and economic turmoil in Sri Lanka, the government has imposed a series of repressive measures against its people. Officials were banned from expressing their own concerns about Sri Lanka’s beleaguered economy via social media platforms. Certain neighborhoods were subject to heightened security requirements which included an [...]

Sri Lankan law students are reporting for JURIST on the situation in that country since mass protests in July that forced the ouster of sitting Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the imposition of emergency rule and the parliamentary election of current president Ranil Wickremesinghe. Sandun Batagoda, a final year law student at the Faculty of [...]

In late August, Pakistani publisher and human rights activist Faheem Baloch was detained by unidentified plain-clothes law enforcement officers in his Karachi bookshop and ushered away. A native of the Balochistan region of Pakistan, the publisher is known to be a dedicated cultural advocate, heading up a publishing house specializing in Balochi literature, and serving [...]

What the bill is all about The brave and ever-evolving “digital world” is transforming our lives today. As a corollary, biometric technology is regarded as an effective, accurate, and dependable way for flawless identification, verification, and authentication of a person. In the same parlance, the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 (“the Bill”), has received a nod [...]

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Monday called on Canada to end its practice of incarcerating immigration detainees in provincial jails. “Canada’s practice . . . is inconsistent with international human rights standards, and jail conditions potentially breach federal-provincial immigration detention contracts,” HRW said. In a legal memorandum released on its website, HRW said that [...]

The Center for Defenders and Justice (CJD), the Penal Forum, and Amnesty International published a research report Thursday indicating that calculated repression by Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s regime could constitute the crime against humanity of persecution. The trio of human rights organizations collaborated in conducting research for over a year. They found “a correlation between [...]

Knowing what you know now about the Holocaust, if you were given a chance to go back in time and attend the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, would you? Would you willingly support the propagandistic rebranding efforts of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime? Or would you do everything in your power not only to [...]

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Thursday announced that the US State Department had imposed visa restrictions on eight Cuban officials accused of silencing protests through repression, unlawful detentions, and harsh prison sentences. In July 2021, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in anti-government protests, motivated by dissatisfaction with the Cuban government’s handling of the economy, [...]